Help I need to know where to take a portable hard drive for repair?

I have a western digital portable hard drive that i use all the time and love. Problem is the port where you plug in the usb cable broke off inside the casing. I contacted western digital and they informed me they do not repair anything out of Warranty (figures). All they could suggest was to find someone that could do data retrieval and buy a new drive. I just want to know if I can fix my old one?!?!?

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If it's just that the USB connector came off, then most any PC repair place should be able to solder one back on. It's just four dang wires. It's not brain surgery, more like toenail clipping.

file system error 65535 2 tb portable hard drive?

azn

Recently I have been getting this error. I pretty much am unable to create new folders nor am I able to move files to the hard drive. It is a WD 2 tb portable HD. How do I fix this issue?
I can't even recycle files.

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WD gives a hardware diagnostics tool with repair. It will work if you have a few errors in your drive. Else, you are on your own. Backup data, try formatting.

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Is it possible to create a mirror image backup of your hard drive and windows 7?

portable hard drive repair image

Q. I already made a system repair DVD for my laptop. Is there a way to backup windows 7 and a computer's hard drive completely so if something goes wrong I can just load it from a portable hard drive or DVD that it's burned to? If I can do this what's the easiest way to do it in windows 7?
My friend told me it's easy to do this but I'm not sure how to do it?

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Just backed up my Computer using "MyPCBackup" - it was so simple, now I never have to worry about losing my files again. Check it out!

Why does my macbook open my portable hard drive as READ ONLY?

Loola

i have a "Western Digital my passport" portable hard drive...when i connect it to a PC i can read the documents on it AND i can add files to it, but on my macbook pro it wont let me do that! i can only copy files from the disk but not put any others on it! is there some setting i can change so i could do both..read and write?

Answer
In your Applications > Utilities folder is a program called Disk Utility

Select your external drive and click Repair Disk (note any errors) and then Repair Permissions.

If Disk Utility reports errors it can't fix, you need to quit and grab your files off the external drive, then head back to Disk Utility and format the external FAT (for Windows and Mac) not HFS+ thats' for Mac only.

All should be well.

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Is it possible to create a mirror image backup of your hard drive and windows 7?

portable hard drive repair image

Q. I already made a system repair DVD for my laptop. Is there a way to backup windows 7 and a computer's hard drive completely so if something goes wrong I can just load it from a portable hard drive or DVD that it's burned to? If I can do this what's the easiest way to do it in windows 7?
My friend told me it's easy to do this but I'm not sure how to do it?

Answer
Just backed up my Computer using "MyPCBackup" - it was so simple, now I never have to worry about losing my files again. Check it out!

Why does my macbook open my portable hard drive as READ ONLY?

Loola

i have a "Western Digital my passport" portable hard drive...when i connect it to a PC i can read the documents on it AND i can add files to it, but on my macbook pro it wont let me do that! i can only copy files from the disk but not put any others on it! is there some setting i can change so i could do both..read and write?

Answer
In your Applications > Utilities folder is a program called Disk Utility

Select your external drive and click Repair Disk (note any errors) and then Repair Permissions.

If Disk Utility reports errors it can't fix, you need to quit and grab your files off the external drive, then head back to Disk Utility and format the external FAT (for Windows and Mac) not HFS+ thats' for Mac only.

All should be well.

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Is it possible to create a mirror image backup of your hard drive and windows 7?

portable hard drive repair image

Q. I already made a system repair DVD for my laptop. Is there a way to backup windows 7 and a computer's hard drive completely so if something goes wrong I can just load it from a portable hard drive or DVD that it's burned to? If I can do this what's the easiest way to do it in windows 7?
My friend told me it's easy to do this but I'm not sure how to do it?

Answer
Just backed up my Computer using "MyPCBackup" - it was so simple, now I never have to worry about losing my files again. Check it out!

Why does my macbook open my portable hard drive as READ ONLY?

Loola

i have a "Western Digital my passport" portable hard drive...when i connect it to a PC i can read the documents on it AND i can add files to it, but on my macbook pro it wont let me do that! i can only copy files from the disk but not put any others on it! is there some setting i can change so i could do both..read and write?

Answer
In your Applications > Utilities folder is a program called Disk Utility

Select your external drive and click Repair Disk (note any errors) and then Repair Permissions.

If Disk Utility reports errors it can't fix, you need to quit and grab your files off the external drive, then head back to Disk Utility and format the external FAT (for Windows and Mac) not HFS+ thats' for Mac only.

All should be well.

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